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23 Cards in this Set
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Olive Branch Petition
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-This Petition was adopted by Continental Congress (July 1775). The purpose was to avoid a war with Great Britain.
-The Petition affirmed the American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent futher conflic. |
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Prohibitory Act
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- in 1775
-This act was a measure of retalition by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on her American colonies. |
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Common Sense
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-Write it by Thomas Paine. On January 10,776 was published, during American Revolution.
- This book reasoned common people understood. The represented the American colonist arguing for Independence from British rule. |
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Declaration of Independence
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-This document was adopted on July 4 for all thirteen states.
-This document contains all the truths about the government and convinced all citizens of the states to Declare Independence. |
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Thomas Jefferson
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He was the great man who had the idea of rebel agains the government and kick him out his post as president
He had the idea to overthrow the president and eh was who did the declaration of independece |
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George Mason
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Was truly one of the Founding Fathers. He was one of the groundwork for the Bill of Rights and Us constitution. He is considerated one of the propieter of libertarism because also he was not agree with constitution.
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Continental Congress
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This continental congress had no power political but it showed that the 13 colonies could cooperate for their mutual benefit. They used to do the things by their own.
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Articles of Confederation
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As the first official document that defined the United States government, the Articles of Confederation both reflected the ideals and philosophies of the American Revolution and highlighted the practical difficulties of democratic government.
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George Washington
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he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, this Virginia-born planter served a great symbolic role in early American history. He was keenly in favor of a strong national government, and exerted his influence toward that end when possible
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Bunker Hill
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It is one of the most important colonial victories in the U.S. War for Independence. Fought during the Siege of Boston.
On June 17, 1775 |
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General Thomas Gorge
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-Thomas had a successful record in the Civil War, but he failed to achieve the historical acclaim of some of his contemporaries
-He developed a reputation as a slow, turned down advancements in position when he did not think they were justified |
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Hessians
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Every school child in America has heard the term "Hessian" in the context of Washington having crossed the Delaware to attack them on Christmas night in 1776.
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Lord Cornwalls
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-Lord Charles Cornwallis was a British general who fought against the Americans in many different battles during the Revolutionary War.
-He was accused of losing America for his bad leadership |
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Nathanael Greene
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-was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary.
-He emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. -august 7, 1742 to June 19, 1786 |
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John Adams
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-John Adams is inaugurated as the second President of the United States in Philadelphia
-John Adams is inaugurated as the second President of the United States in Philadelphia -Congress adopts the Sedition Act, the fourth and last of the Alien and Sedition acts. The bill subjects any American citizen to a fine and/or imprisonment for obstructing the implementation of federal law, or for publishing malicious or false writings against Congress, the President, or the government. |
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John Jay
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as diplomat to Spain, attempted to negotiate for American access to trade along the Mississippi River. Threatened by Americans moving westward, the Spanish diplomat Diego de Gardoqui recommended instead that Spain would establish trade with eastern U.S. ports, assist in removing Great Britain from the Great Lakes and assist in combating the Barbary Pirates. Southern and Western delegates in Congress viewed with contempt this plan that seemed to sacrifice their interests to the commercial interests of the Northeast.
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Treaty of Pars its
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-This treaty, negotiated on behalf of the U.S. by Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and Samuel Adams, formally acknowledged the independence of the thirteen American colonies, and set the boundaries of the new nation at the Atlantic Ocean in the east, the Mississippi River in the west, Florida in the south, and Canada in the north.
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Woman During War Time
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Many women went to the war and started to work
Women also were in the war helping and attacking the enemies They also were working at home to maintein food and economy. |
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Abigail Adams
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-She educated herself when she was a child
-She taught herself science. - She was married to John Adams for 45 years. -She helped with making women's right a part of the law. She also made a law that girls should go to school and have equal education. |
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Civic Virtue
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- Is something that people need to learn
They need learn to give things help people or make them happy people who need it, is better to gave them if you don't need it |
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Ordinance of 1784
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Proposed by Thomas Jefferson just a month after Virginia officially handed over western lands to congress, this ordinance established the process by which new lands would be divided into states, the process for surveying and sale, and the qualifications of new states to enter into Congress. This ordinance set the precedent to prohibit any attempts to colonize newly ceded lands.
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Northwest ordinance
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A revision of the earlier Land Ordinance of 1784, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 refined some of the earlier qualifications for statehood. It further provided that a certain amount of land had to be reserved for public education, and that slavery was to be prohibited in this territory north of the Ohio River.
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Shay's Rebellion
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Daniel Shays organized farmers throughout New England to protest legislation that increased taxes and demanded immediate debt-repayment.t his rebellion demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, and convinced many states of the need for a stronger central government
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